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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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